Blog Entries For November 2004

Bawls by the case has replaced the vegetable drawer:

No one is sleeping (again), except everywhere they don't mean to:

We found the open-till-3am everything food stand and store (in the gonna-get-knifed-in-a-group-less-than-10 section of town):
Note the candy next to the shampoo next the the lighters-rolling papers-razor blades next the the Tylenol and Band-Aids

Look at the chips they sell - Rap Snacks (featuring Magic Johnson) and Homegirls Potato Chips:

Jeff discovers buying food at the Kelly Deli with monopoly money:

Sunrises from our window (because I go to sleep at 7am):

Chinatown Groceries, with a cat sleeping on a bag of rice in the window:

Windows XP Home PROFESSIONAL:
Sold at a bootleg store in Chinatown (where they offer Windows Advanced Server for $13 on a Memorex disk), it clearly says Windows XP Home Edition on the box, with a sticker placed over Home Edition reading "Professional"

Jeff made this with his ice cream cone:
He insists that the caption for this has to be "Jeff has a magical tounge"

Dinner conversation:
Steve got mad at Timo, picked up napkins and ketchup, wrote that, and sat down without a word

Twelve cups of black supercoffee that came out blacker than the new coffee maker:

"The Cult Church", otherwise the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where "the door is still open", though it was locked when we got there. Not shown in the pictures is the sign just inside the door which "strictly prohibits" photography inside. The photo didn't come out, or it would have been great irony.

Note in this picture that the church is lead by "Bishop Omega L. Shelton", the "Apostle and General Overseer". Not pictured (it was 3AM, not enough light for a lot of these pictures on a camera-phone) is the silver Ω embedded into the masonry in the front of the building.

This statue sits in front of the building's fountains (fountains!?!?) and looks eerily like a pentagram. It features a cross that tapers to a sword (Jesus is called the prince of peace, but has a sword?), an open Bible, and a random Greek V prominently in the center. There is also a Greek alpha on the front of the building embedded in the stonework, so it seems the three Apostle and General Overseer's the church has had since it was founded in 1901 might have assigned themselves a each Greek letter (Christian = Greek = ?!?!?) and then embedded it into the church somehow.

Take a look at how scary Jeff looks standing behind the pentagram/symbol-thingy. If you look closer though, you will notice shorts and sandals with white socks hiding under the trenchcoat :) . You can see the color better in this one, so check out that the pentagram is painted red, yellow, and purple, with the three rings around it alternating colors.